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Originally Posted by Buehler445
You are still totally missing the point. You can deflect blame to Vermiel all you want but the bottom line is the dudes Herm brought in were trash. Sure he couldn't go bring in Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison for the offense and Ed Reed and Ray Lewis for the defense but that does not excuse the trash he brought in.
For ****s sake, Dorsey brought in six guys off the waiver wire that got meaningful snaps on a playoff team. Just because you aren't in the market for marquee free agents does not excuse bringing in absolute ****ing trash players that no GM of any team wants.
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I never said herm was a personnel genius. I thought he was solid but unspectacular. Thats different from trash.
It takes an elite personnel guy to build off a bare roster using only draft picks and pulling everything from the scrap heap. So if that's the knock on him, that's really unfair expectations. Herm made the right call to demolish the roster. He and kuharich were pretty effective in drafting (brought in more talent in 3 years than Pioli did in 4 yrs...vermeil in 5yrs). And while he didn't bring in much free agent talent, he also purposely chose not to and deserves credit for his restraint.
I'm not comparing herm with the best. But you're comparing him to the worst, and that just aient. I'm not missing the point at all. I don't believe bandaiding the roster was even an option. So if the only option is to build through the draft and the scrap pile, I recognize that that is going to be a lot longer and more difficult process to find talent than if you binged on proven free agents or inherited a mega roster from your predecessor.